Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: guidance - System administration tools https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233603 bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxx changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product|Fedora Extras |Fedora hlingler@xxxxxxxxxxx changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hlingler@xxxxxxxxxxx ------- Additional Comments From hlingler@xxxxxxxxxxx 2007-06-24 00:55 EST ------- Reference: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=512929&aid=1737344&group_id=65974 "guidance" package broken The guidance software package for FC6 (http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/6/i386/stable/RPMS/guidanc e-0.7.1-1.fc6.i386.rpm) is seriously broken. For various reasons, I wanted to use the KDE desktop and kdm exclusively, and in order to fully integrate KDE/kdm, it was necessary to remove the several standard system-config-* software packages so that KDE could "take over." I had hoped that "guidance" would provide some of the functionality lost by removing these packages. Several problems immediately surfaced: 1) ~/.xsession-errors: the first line is always: "warning: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/40guidance-displayconfig_restore does not end in .sh extension, ignoring"; if this is deliberate, I apologize, but nowhere in the documentation did I find anything telling me to change/fix/configure this item; if this script is meant to be run at start-up, then it's not happening; if it's a "fall-back" or "back-up" feature, then I'm confused; I am not sure whether or not to change this item so that it runs; my display and desktop are functioning just fine, so I have left it alone; 2) Missing dependencies: PyKDE is required for runtime; the apps included in guidance did not start until I installed PyKDE - the CLI errors pointed me towards this; there may be other missing dependencies (PyQt, sip, pykdeextensions, hsqldb), but these packages were already installed on my box anyhow; 3) environment variables: after installing PyKDE, CLI errors told me that some java-type file couldn't be found; I traced this to /etc/sysconfig/hsqldb, which was looking for a file in the path "JAVA_HOME", but on my box it's "J2RE_HOME"; I fixed the entry in /etc/sysconfig/hsqldb, and I realize that this may be a problem with the latest java and/or hsqldb packages, but without any warning, other users of guidance will run into the same problems; perhaps guidance could be somehow told to look-for/pass-on both paths to hsqldb and the other apps it uses at runtime; 4) Permissions: the apps included in guidance will start for any user, however, they will not run correctly and/or will yield spurious output unless run by root; I believe that these apps were meant to be run by root primarily; 5) Menu entries: the *.desktop items supplied with the package do not integrate into the KDE menu; I had to manually add them; 6) KDE Kontrol Center: even after all of the above tweaking, guidance apps will not start inside the KDE Kontrol Center as they are supposed to; I haven't figured out this problem yet; the typical CLI error is: "Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/apps/guidance/wineconfig.py", line 19, in ? from qt import * ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/qt.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicode_Type error: ***failed to import module"; same error for each module (displayconfig.py, serviceconfig.py, etc.); 7) Other errors: when run as root (or even as a normal user) as stand-alone apps (outside of Kontrol Center), displayconfig and mountconfig appear to run and work as intended; serviceconfig CLI error: "rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused"; userconfig errors: "Didn't read default DIR_MODE Didn't read default DIR_MODE no user removed no user removed no user removed"; wineconfig errors: "regedit: Can't export. Registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager' does not exist! Success regedit: Can't export. Registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults' does not exist! Success regedit: Can't export. Registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' does not exist! Success" I realize that this is a rather long list, and I apologize in advance if any of these errors are caused by my own oversights; if any of these items should be directed to the developer(s) of guidance itself, please let me know and I will do so. If any additional info is needed, or if I can help in any other way, please do not hesitate to contact me. Regards, Vince Linux 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 #1 SMP Wed May 16 18:59:18 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux kde-3.4.1-1.0 from KDE-RedHat guidance-0.7.1-1.fc6 from KDE-RedHat -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review